For the sixth year running, Unilever has been named one of the “Best
Places to Work” by Human Rights Campaign, achieving a perfect score of
100 percent on the 2014 Corporate Equality Index (“CEI.”) The CEI is
used as a measure to rank U.S. companies on their treatment of LGBT
(lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) employees, consumers and
investors.
The 2014 CEI rated 934 businesses in the report, which evaluates
LGBT-related policies and practices including non-discrimination
workplace protections, domestic partner benefits, transgender-inclusive
health care benefits, competency programs, and public engagement with
the LGBT community.
“We are proud and honored for Unilever to once again be named as a Best
Place to Work for LGBT employees and achieve a 100 percent score on the
Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index for the sixth year in a
row,” said Sumeet Salwan, Unilever’s Senior Vice President, Human
Resources. “At Unilever, we firmly believe that diversity, agile working
and performance are all inherently connected. To build a high performing
organization and meet our growth ambitions, we need to foster an
inclusive environment where our diverse employees can bring all of
themselves to work every day. Building flexibility and inclusion drives
this output-oriented culture for us.”
Unilever supports the LGBT community at work through its PRIDE Network.
PRIDE (People Respecting Individuality, Diversity and Equality) is an
LGBT Diversity Network open to all Unilever employees that share a
common goal of endorsing respect, individuality, diversity, and equality
throughout the organization.
“From the great work of our PRIDE business resource group, to the
activism of Ben & Jerry’s to the benefits available for domestic
partners and spouses, this recognition demonstrates our commitment to
our values of equality and celebrating differences across gender,
ethnicity, LGBT, generations and different working styles,” Salwan added.
Unilever joins the ranks of 303 major U.S. businesses which also earned
top marks this year. For more information on the 2014 Corporate Equality
Index, visit www.hrc.org/cei.
About Unilever:
Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and
Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries. Our products
are present in 7 out of 10 homes globally and are used by over 2 billion
people on a daily basis. In the United States the portfolio includes
brand icons such as: Axe, Ben & Jerry’s, Bertolli, Breyers, Caress,
Clear Scalp & Hair Therapy, Consort For Men, Country Crock, Degree, Dove
personal care products, Fruttare, Good Humor, Hellmann’s, I Can’t
Believe It’s Not Butter!, Just for Me!, Klondike, Knorr, Lever 2000,
Lipton, Magnum, Motions, Nexxus, Noxzema, Pond’s, Popsicle, Promise,
Q-tips, Ragú, Simple, Slim-Fast, St. Ives, Suave, TIGI, TRESemmé and
Vaseline. All of the preceding brand names are trademarks or registered
trademarks of the Unilever Group of Companies.
Our ambition is to double the size of our business, while reducing our
overall environmental footprint (including sourcing, consumer use and
disposal) and increasing our positive social impact. We are committed to
helping more than a billion people take action to improve their health
and well-being, sourcing all our agricultural raw materials sustainably
by 2020, and decoupling our growth from our environmental impact.
Supporting our three big goals are more than 50 time-based targets. See
more on the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan at http://www.unileverusa.com/sustainable-living/.
Unilever employs more than 10,000 people in the United States –
generating over $9 billion in sales in 2012. For more information, visit www.unileverusa.com.
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